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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This is a course in reading and analyzing the news. By examining how news is reported and shaped, students improve their writing skills, heighten their awareness of effective communication, and gain insight into the impact of the news media in America. Open to all students except those taking Basic Writing (ENG 0132).
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits This course presents a global approach to literature by introducing a variety of narrative, lyric, and dramatic forms representative of different cultures and historical periods, from the 17th century to the present. Specific choices depend upon the preference of the instructor, but every class studies examples of fantasy and satire, Romantic poetry, modern plays, and a broad range of narratives. Discussions involve both close reading of selected texts and comparison of the values the texts promote. Students engage in a variety of communication-intensive activities designed to enhance their appreciation of literature and their awareness of the way it shapes and reflects a multicultural world. (This course is equivalent to LTT 2850. Students will receive credit for either ENG 2850 or LTT 2850. These courses may not substitute for each other in the F grade replacement policy. This course may not be taken with the Pass/Fail option.) Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The course surveys the development of literature written in English, from its beginnings through the 17th century. Major works to be studied include Beowulf, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Shakespearean drama, and Milton's Paradise Lost. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course surveys the development of English literature from the 18th century to the present. To be studied are such major authors as Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, and other Romantics; the Bront s, Browning, Dickens, and other Victorians; Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, and other Moderns. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course explores the development of American liter - ature, both prose and poetry, from its beginnings in Native American oral forms through the Civil War. Included is the literature of discovery and exploration, of abolition, and of American transcendentalism. To be studied are such writers as Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course explores the development of American literature, including prose, poetry, and drama, from the Civil War to the present. To be studied are such writers as Mark Twain, Henry James, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Robert Frost, Willa Cather, Eugene O'Neill, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, and Alice Walker. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course examines major themes in the contemporary literature of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It focuses on poems, short stories, novels, and plays by Nobel laureates like Naguib Mahfouz, Octavio Paz, Wole Soyinka, and Rabindranath Tagore, as well as other established writers from China, Korea, India, the Philippines, the Arab world, east and west Africa, Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course studies important works from prominent racial and ethnic minorities of the United States, with emphasis on the contributions of these minorities to American culture. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course charts the development of African American literature from the 18th century to the present in the context of the complex dynamic of resistance and collaboration that helped to shape the culture, politics, creative imagination, and self-identities of African Americans. Beginning with slave narratives, the course proceeds to an analysis of representative texts from the large body of early poetry and fiction (including Wheatley, Horton, Dunbar, Wilson); from the Harlem Renaissance canon (Hughes, McKay, Cullen, Larsen, Fauset, Hurston); and from realistic, naturalistic, and modernist works by such writers as Wright, Baldwin, Marshall, and Morrison. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course examines literary works written in English in regions other than Great Britain and the United States, namely Africa, Australia, South Asia, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. The focus is on different genres produced in the post-colonial period, including works by such writers as Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, James Ngugi, Derek Walcott, and Patrick White. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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